Tools for The Cultural and Related Arts
This page contains tools specifically collected for Music, Visual and Physical Education Arts classrooms.

Think first - What is the unit, lesson, skill you want to teach? Don't start with the tool.

Smartboard Notebook Resources


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Lesson Activity Toolkit - Pairs (Matching game sample)
Smart Exchange - Great place to find other teachers' lessons
Kevin Sullivan's Games - Shown an NJEA 2010

~File management:

For example: Create a folder called Smartboard Lessons, then another folder inside that one called Notebook Templates.
Store all the games/resources made by others that you find there.
When you find a need for one, open it up, edit to fit your lesson, etc. and then re-save it in another folder based by the class/lesson.
Your templates will always remain but now you have ready made games that work too!



Community & Funding
Donors Choose
Digital Wish
Philadelphia Museum of Art


Professional Organizations
National Art Education Association
New Horizons
Arts Education Partnership
Arts Education in Schools
Menc

Ti-Me



Visual Art

The Incredible Art Department
Art Education 2.0
Crayola for Educators
Visual Arts for Educators - Lots of terrific articles
Helen Hagerty's Wiki Resources

Publishers
Sterling
Davis
Magnolia Street



Music
For extensive resources check out Helen's Cultural Arts Wiki:

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helenhagerty


Click here: https://helenhagerty.wikispaces.com/Cultural+Arts+Homepage

Files of interest (from H.Hagerty)

Peter and the Wolf Matching Game:
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Carnival of the Animals Matching Game:
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Book Matching Game:
Zin-Zin-Zin-a-Violin_Matching.ppt
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Music Publishers

Hal Leonard: http://www.halleonard.com/
J.W. Pepper http://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/welcome.jsp
Shawnee Press http://www.shawneepress.com/
Alfred Publishing http://www.alfred.com/

Folk Resources

http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/ Lomax Books, etc.
http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer Searchable database of recordings
http://www.mudcat.org 1000’s of songs and also forums about specific songs and lyrics. Plus, each song can be heard by a piano playing the melody.

General Teacher Tools

Music Ed Font (stick notation with and w/o noteheads) http://www.musicteachertools.com/
Online Metronome: http://www.metronomeonline.com/
Rhythm Exercises Online http://www.philtulga.com/counter.html
“Musical Minds” Graduate Student resource for the Kodaly Method (via H. Hagerty):http://sites.google.com/a/gapps.gjps.org/musical-minds/Home
http://www.iRetrievalDatabase.com Software specifically for music teachers (via H. Hagerty)
Music Theory - www.musictheory.net Chord Progression/Music Theory/Great Exercises for the Smartboard

Instrumental Music
Band Fingering Charts http://www.alfred.com/SC/BandResources.aspx

Orchestra Resources:
Violin: http://www.violinonline.com/fingeringchart.htm
Cello: http://www.celloonline.com/cellofingeringchart.htm
String Bass: http://www.studybass.com/

Podcasting Software

Audacity - Windows and Mac ( http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ )
Lame ( libmp3lame.dylib )
Garage Band - Mac
Audacity Portable - Windows only. Can be run from a flash drive or CD.

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AudacitySetUp.pdf


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Audacity_tutorial.pdf


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SoundProblemsWindows.pdf


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Sound Effects - http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/dramasoundeffects.htm
Publishing - Any site with an RSS Feed
iLike - http://www.ilike.com


Physical Education & Health
Quizlet - Create quizzes and play games while learning vocabulary words
My Diigo Account - Health - Websites I've tagged with Health
My Diigo Account - Phys Ed - Websites I've tagged with PE
~(Please email me others if/when you find them and I'll add them!)

Creative Resource Bank: Pinterest
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Click here: www.pinterest.com

What is Pinterest - A Virtual, visual pinboard.
"Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes."
Click here to Learn More

Here's an example from blogger "funkydoodledonkey"
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Some Other Great 2.0 Tools


http://groups.yahoo.com - Common site where teachers can form their own “group” where information, links, files and messages can be posted, but remain confidential to only group members.
https://docs.google.com/ - Great place to create forms for a listening journal like the ones Meredith uses with her students
http://www.aviary.com/ - Music editor like garageband (Podcasting tool as well you can use immediately)
aviaryeducation.com - Educators' site allows you to have users under you
Vital Community - Elluminate pre-recorded session showing a teacher's experience using Aviary free online tools in the primary classroom.
Noteflight.com - Create, view, print and hear music notation